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...Mitchell allegedly came calling once more, on the evening of June 5, 2002, when he cut a hole in a window screen in the Smarts' kitchen. He plucked Elizabeth at knifepoint from the bedroom she shared with her sister. Who knows whether Elizabeth recognized the man who had worked once on her family's house and now led her through her backyard up into the Wasatch Mountains. Police say the trio spent its first three months camped in the maze of gullies and canyons just a few miles from the Smarts' home...
...last week Elizabeth had suffered a "strong psychological impact" that may have overwhelmed any impulse to escape. Having secured his first new bride, Mitchell made a move for another. Police suspect that on the evening of July 24, he climbed atop a chair and carved a hole in the screen of the bedroom window of Jessica Wright, Elizabeth's 18-year-old cousin...
...music is too loud; the audience won't catch the kind of maple-busting noise Kasdan is looking for. Kasdan won't have it. That's because he knows that horror isn't so much shot as constructed. Even the most artful scared face looks stupid on the big screen if the computer-generated monster is cheesy, the sound effects flat, the silences too short or the cuts too slow. So compared with the rush of filming, say, My Dinner with Andre, making a horror movie is painful, boring, detail-obsessive work...
...like. but I must say that from when we did the campaigning on Goodfellas, it's gotten a lot more intense. And there are all these other award ceremonies. And so much airtime to fill up. If one of the actors from your film is not talking on that screen in the middle of the night, there will be five other actors from five different films talking. But if it had to be a film, it's good that it was this one. Because I put so much into it, and it was the biggest budget I've ever...
...Iraqi TV had repeatedly announced to viewers that the speech from Saddam was coming up shortly. In the hour before Saddam appeared on the screen, the TV broadcast Arabs singing patriotic songs, images of Saddam and pictures of Iraqi national landmarks, including the military parade ground in Baghdad that features two sets of huge crossed swords. The broadcast was introduced and ended with martial music as the screen displayed the eagle that is the Iraqi national symbol. Saddam sat in what appeared to be a makeshift studio, with a backdrop consisting of what seemed to be an ordinary, wrinkled white...